English Exam

Comparing one thing to another as if it is that

Like or as

Giving humanlike qualities to an object

Meant to represent something else

a statement that seems to contradict itself

writing poetry in an unstructured style

Short story with a moral

strong use of symbols in a work

Modernistic literature tends to revolve around the themes of individualism, the randomness of life, mistrust of institutions (government, religion) and the disbelief in any absolute truths

Modernist literature attempted to move from the bonds of Realist literature

explores human emotion, what it means to be human